About This Class

Creating rapid fashion illustrations is one of the most important skills needed for a fashion designer to convey the themes, shapes, and textures of their garments in the most efficient way possible. When building an entire collection time is often of the essence, so it is essential to accurately represent your ideas on paper - beautifully - without wasting any effort.

We started Bellavance after graduating from Parsons School of Design and we have been fortunate enough to have our brand featured in top editorial outlets like Style.com and retail shops like Opening Ceremony. Long before our pieces are featured on pages or shelves, however, they start out as concepts through sketch and illustration.

What You'll Learn in This Class:

Fashion illustration is something we at Bellavance use constantly in order to display our design concepts and communicate with our team and manufacturers. We are often in situations where we need to churn out these hand drawn representations of our garments rather quickly, so it is important to know specific shortcuts and tricks that allow us to focus on what is of utmost importance- the clothing. We’ll cover:

After meeting on their first day of orientation and working side by side in core design classes for three years at Parsons the New School for Design, Nolan Bellavance and Ava Hama decided to start a company together.

Nolan and Ava have collectively worked with Gap, Theory, JF & Son, and Opening Ceremony. Nolan won the National CFDA Student Award Scholarship and was awarded the coveted Saga Furs award in coordination with the Hong Kong Fur Federation. His senior thesis collection...